Affordable Care Act Scene 2 - Insurance Premiums

dietz199
Mon, 10 Nov 2014 22:35:49 +0000

Mark Gruber, MIT professor who functioned as technical consultant during the drafting of the bill said the following

“This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. Okay, so it’s written to do that. In terms of risk rated subsidies, if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in – you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed… Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical for the thing to pass… Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not.”

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The lack of transparency and the not knowing what was in it has brought the issue to the Supreme Court.